National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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Nov 2, 2026
LiuHOST
Clear your countertop, make sure that you line it with some eco-friendly liner so you can just throw it away or use containers that you can heat up on the stove or put in the dishwasher.
LiuHOST
You really wanna make sure you disinfect your environment after working in it with at least 70% alcohol or like isopropyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol or a disinfectant that has been certified by NIOSH.
LiuHOST
And I'll leave that website in the notes below.
LiuHOST
but you know wear gloves when you handle raw meat because it's some of these germs get stuck inside your fingers your fingers and your hands are so important it touches different surface areas that's how you contaminate your own environment and speaking of germs do you ever take your cell phone in the bathroom
Sean FenskeHOST
Let's see what their priority items are for 2027.
Mike DruesGUEST
All right, so according to FDA, and I'm going to go through the seven guidances that are on their A list or priority list for 2027, in their order, not mine, number one is NIOSH, that's the National Institutes of Occupational Safety and Health, approved air purifying respirators.
Mike DruesGUEST
Number two is recommendations for AI enabled device software functions.
Mike DruesGUEST
And you'll notice throughout these lists, Sean, there's going to be several different AI guidances that we can probably expect in 2027, which I'm sure is not much of a surprise to anybody.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
On a street corner outside of one of the agency's major research labs in Morgantown, West Virginia, I talked to federal employees and their supporters who had been or were in the crosshairs of losing their jobs.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
I remember signs they held up, NIOSH workers for minors.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
It was amazing, firefighters and Americans.
Jacob SoboroffHOST
Drivers by honked to make literal noise about the cuts, cuts that were later restored because of their fight.
Pete PattersonGUEST
So there are two reasons, Your Honors.
Pete PattersonGUEST
First- In facilitating training, which is a protected activity, as this court has held, NIOSH and the CDC have said that suppressors are the only potentially effective noise control method to reduce the sound exposure from firearms.
Pete PattersonGUEST
And they privilege noise control methods, which are engineering controls.
Pete PattersonGUEST
over personal protective equipment like earmuffs and earplugs that depend on the users using them properly and consistently.
Ryan UrikGUEST
There's REBO and rule assessments.
Ryan UrikGUEST
There's, you know, SNUC tables, NIOSH lifting indexes.
Ryan UrikGUEST
It's about identifying the tools and going to that workplace to start surveying those things.
Ryan UrikGUEST
then prioritizing where you want to go first, right? You've got to start somewhere, so make sure you prioritize based upon that subjective data.
Pete WakefieldHOST
The building's structural history, operational procedures, communication, accountability, and subsequent rescue effort.
Pete WakefieldHOST
An additional independent investigation was also conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, NIOSH.
Pete WakefieldHOST
We should know what NIOSH is.
Pete WakefieldHOST
We even use that in the UK.
Pete WakefieldHOST
Loads of people have qualifications in it.
Pete WakefieldHOST
NIOSH operates a program investigating firefighter fatalities as well with the aim of identifying lessons that may help prevent future deaths.
Pete WakefieldHOST
Investigation done by NIOSH was eventually published in April of 2025, so just last year.
Pete WakefieldHOST
And the findings raised several important issues.
Corey LevyGUEST
It should be filtered properly, right? So we can't just focus on one individual thing.
Corey LevyGUEST
What I find to be the most interesting is that people tend to lean towards fixing diet, fixing water, working on these things really quickly and first, But the data that we see, And NIOSH just did a study recently where they looked at homes and they said, this is in 2023, on average, estimate that 47% of homes have a dampness and mold issue in them.
Corey LevyGUEST
World Health Organization did a study 20 years prior to that.
Corey LevyGUEST
They said about 50% of the homes in the US, same thing, had a issue of mold and dampness inside of that.
Zebunisso AlimovaHOST
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Evan CardwellGUEST
do? So we adhere to the NIOSH standard so we essentially have 100 by 100 squares and so they've got like a sticky back to it.
Evan CardwellGUEST
We've kind of determine where the best possible location is for airflow you know or if there's some there are some substances material sorry where meth doesn't break down on so polyurethane if i see a polyurethane door i'm testing that door rather than you know an extractor fan because if meth goes on that polyurethane it's not breaking down so it will give me a true indication of what the actual level is so first point of call will be polyurethane And then with that 100 by 100 square, then we do a swab sample.
Evan CardwellGUEST
So the swabs come from the lab that we use.
PaulHOST
This is done to the best of our ability and listeners should be cautioned that you may not agree.
PaulHOST
The information for this episode is taken from the NIOSH Firefighter Fatality and Prevention Program Report F2043 and Rick DeGroote's Building Construction for the Firefighters Facebook page.
PaulHOST
We're changing things up a little bit this episode.
PaulHOST
This is not a line of duty death report.
PaulHOST
This is an injury incident.
PaulHOST
The NIOSH fire prevention, fatality prevention program is doing more injury investigations now.
PaulHOST
They didn't used to do many of them before, but they're increasing their focus on that because they're really thinking that these injuries are near misses.
PaulHOST
So we need to expand upon them and make people aware of these near misses.
Reid FrazierCORRESPONDENT
What are researchers finding?
Howard BerkusSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health tracks the occurrence of black lung disease.
Howard BerkusSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Their most recent study found that in Appalachia, 32.5% of the minors tested had black lung disease.
Howard BerkusSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's from the group of minors who'd been working 25 years or more.
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